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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Samuel R. Delany in his New York City apartment in 1983.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re dreaming of other worlds, and highlighting writers of speculative and science fiction. Read on for Samuel R. Delany\u2019s\u00a0Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, an\u00a0epilogue chapter<\/a>\u00a0to Ursula K. Le Guin\u2019s Earthsea series, and Margaret Atwood\u2019s poem \u201cFrogless<\/a>,\u201d paired with photos from Richard Kalvar\u2019s series \u201cEarthlings<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

Interview<\/em>
\nSamuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210<\/a>
\nIssue no. 197\u00a0(Summer 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

Do you think of yourself as a genre writer?<\/p>\n

DELANY<\/p>\n

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another. That\u2019s about the closest I come to categorizing myself as one or another kind of artist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

From the series \u201cEarthlings,\u201d by Richard Kalvar.<\/p><\/div>\n

Fiction<\/em>
\nFirelight<\/a>
\nBy Ursula K. Le Guin
\nIssue no. 225 (Summer 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

Were the mountains gone then, too, that other boundary, the Mountains of Pain? They stood far across the desert from the wall, black, small, sharp against the dull stars. The young king had walked with him across the Dry Land to the mountains. It seemed west but it was not westward they walked; there was no direction there. It was forward, onward, the way they had to go. You go where you must go, and so they had come to the dry streambed, the darkest place. And then on even beyond that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>

From the series \u201cEarthlings,\u201d by Richard Kalvar.<\/p><\/div>\n

Poetry<\/em>
\nFrogless<\/a>
\nBy Margaret Atwood
\nIssue no. 117 (Winter 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

Here comes an eel with a dead eye
\ngrown from its cheek.
\nWould you cook it?
\nYou would if.<\/p>\n

The people eat sick fish
\nbecause there are no others.
\nThen they get born wrong.<\/p>\n

This is not sport, sir.
\nThis is not good weather.
\nThis is not blue and green.<\/p>\n

This is home.
\nTravel anywhere in a year, five years,
\nand you\u2019ll end up here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>

From the series \u201cEarthlings,\u201d by Richard Kalvar.<\/p><\/div>\n

Art<\/em>
\nEarthlings<\/a>
\nBy Richard Kalvar
\nIssue no. 180 (Spring 2007)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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